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Trade wars, torn up treaties supposed to prevent more weapons of mass destruction, an endless series of local wars which now directly involve the great powers, the rise of nationalism everywhere: all underpinned by a global economic crisis and stagnation which have echoes of the past. Back in the Thirties such developments led to the Armageddon of the Second World War. Are we en route for World War Three? To discuss these, and other questions facing the working class today, join us on

As capitalism’s economic crisis deepens our rulers are determined to make the working class pay for it by increasing exploitation and reducing wages and living conditions.

All across the world, the capitalists and their political puppets are also trying to prevent any united working class fightback by widening divisions in the working class, such as nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual preference. The xenophobia whipped up before and after the Brexit campaign, the Trump election campaign and the election campaigns of nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland are a few recent examples of what is happening and what is to come.

At the same time national states are trying to push the crisis onto capitalists of other states or blocs of states by trade wars. And history tells us that trade wars are the prelude to shooting wars. While imperialist proxy wars continue to rage in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe, and while a new conflict with Iran is being stoked up, increasingly intense global conflicts are being prepared.

Nationalism is the main tool being used to recruit workers to support their rulers in these wars. No faction of the capitalist class is worth supporting and none is “a lesser evil”! The alternative is not to do nothing. There are already voices being raised under the banner of “No war but the class war!” to challenge the fate that the capitalists are preparing for us.

Join them in a public meeting to find out more and make your own contribution:

2pm on Saturday 17th March at the Woodman, New Canal St, Birmingham B5 5LG

As Capitalism turns to populist leaders, we will no doubt continue to see a growth in reformist campaigns based around single issues Whether its ‘save the NHS’, ‘save the environment’ campaigns against so-called ‘terfs’s, anti fascism, anti-deportations, pro-EU or anti- EU, such campaigns seek to make only minor changes capitalism and are either bourgeois campaigns or mislead the working class into supporting this or that faction of the bourgoisie. They spread the illusion that capitalism can gradually be improved by minor changes instead of revolution.

However its never that simple. One of the major phases of the Russian Revolution was sparked off by an International Womens Day march lead by working class women as they demonstrated against the lack of bread and brutality of the Russian Regime.

The discussion intends then to focus on the reformist, single issue campaigns spread by the left and liberal democracy and the need for independent working class action against the state.